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espouse

[ih-spouz, ih-spous] / ɪˈspaʊz, ɪˈspaʊs /




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Whatever agendas they may personally espouse, these writers are too alert to the messiness of history and human nature to be rigidly ideological in their work.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

“Maybe the government should be slower to espouse programs that it thinks will be the new wave,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Although government lawyers who espouse such theories should not be, on those grounds, subject to professional discipline, they can—and, I think, should—generally be shunned by the profession.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

"I would know of no school which would have an ethos that would espouse what you are suggesting," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

He was at length prevailed upon to espouse the Princess Jane of Naples, but did not long survive the union.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.




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